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Development aid: financial aid offered by governments, IGOs and NGOs, either bilaterally (directly) or multilaterally (indirectly) to support long-term SEEP development

2. Trade embargoes: government/international ban on trade put in place by IGOs and governments with a specific country in response to threats on international security or in an attempt to end humanitarian abuses e.g UN and South African apartheid

4. Military action: a last resort that can either be direct (UK and USA sending in troops and airstrikes in Iraq during 2003) or indirect (UK offered military training to Nigerian army to defend against Islamist militant group in 2016)

National Sovereignty - Libya

Bombing raids and military embargoes undertaken by UK and French air forces supporting civilians and rebel-based groups, killing the ruler and allowing a new government to be put in place

5 countries on UN Security Council (China, Russia, Germany, Brazil, India) abstained from vote: insufficient evidence to justify interference with Libya's sovereignty, set precedent for international voice on how they treat their population (China and Russia), regime change, interference is inconsistent

Country with the 10th largest oil reserves run by Colonel Gadaffi since 1969. In 2011, rebel groups began opposing government, inspired by the 'Arab Spring'. Opposers were repressed and killed, causing UN to authorised force to protect civilians

Post- Gaddafi Libya is unstable, many areas are outside official government control and terrorist and rebel groups have power over them and are in conflict with one another and the government